Margaret Welch Fall

ED 410 Lesson Plan

Discover Alabama

Let’s Take A Road Trip

Grade 4

Mrs. Welch Fall

Mrs. Welch Fall

At Home Assignment

Visit Alabama! Learn about this state and its history - with a focus on

the civil rights struggle. Watch Alabama State History video prior to

class.

At Home

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwncgw0y3Pg

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VJiMbWCxok

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPpFcMKT2mk

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXjzhw1mvk

Watch

Videos

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Evening Assignment

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PBL Project and Global Collaboration

In Class

Whole Group Discussion/Think Out Loud

How can we show others about our great state?

What are some ways we can show others?

What places would we show?

Essential Questions

How will I find it? What do I know? What do I need to know

Introduction

And

Expectations

Calling

All Alabama Travel Agents!

Major Products

Performances

• Why come to Alabama Trip Plans.

• Create a travel brochure (Glogster, Powerpoint,

Publisher) that persuades tourists to visit to

Alabama.

• Create a kid's guide to Alabama, created by kids

for kids!

• Create a video of our brochure presentation. Tell

me about my upcoming trip and where I will go.

Mid-project products will be a storyboard showing sketches and progress.

Explain that students will be researching the state of Alabama,

plan a trip and create a travel brochure about the State

Discuss brochures and examples

Road Trip You are travel agents and will plan a trip

And create a travel brochure for Alabama.

Where is Alabama?

How do you get there? *Not just by car

Where do you stay?

How do you get around?

What is there to do?

How much does __________ cost?

What places would be fun to visit?

How much would that cost?

What is the weather going to be like?

What should you bring?

What landmarks/venues are unique to Alabama?

How long and how wide the state is in miles?

What time of year would you choose to visit?

Does the season affect your activities?

You will work with your project team to do research,

plan and create a travel brochure.

• Each students in the team will how to work

collaboratively.

• Designate fluid roles for group members.

• You will discuss roles and students will choose their

primary roles, but assume responsibility and

interactivity for all group roles.

• Reminder: Every part of the process belongs to

each individual and needs each student's total

involvement.

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The _______________ The _______________ The _______________

Storyboard/Graphic Organizer

Benchmarks

Project Flow:

Week by week plan for activities and objectives.

Week 1-Introduction and Checklist- begin research on 3 places; Speaker

from Alabama Tourism.

Week 2- Discuss in weekly meeting-mini lesson on persuasive writing;

storyboard trip.

Week 3-Begin putting research into publisher brochure or glog.

Week 4-practice presentations and videos, share finished product via

global collaboration; self & peer assessment; reflection.

* Daily journal entry, reflect on the project.

Student’s

Checklist

Assessment for PBL

• Preliminary Plans/Outlines/Prototypes

• Rough draft of presentation

• Oral Presentation, with rubric

• Practice Presentations

• Checklists

• Peer Evaluation

• Self-Evaluation

• Teachers Observation Checklist and dialogues

• Informal checks for understanding

• Test

• Academic prompts

• Performance on Project

• Journey Reflection on the project

• Fish bowl discussions

• Other Product(s) or Performance(s),

Travel Brochure, PSA/Video using for eportfolios

Peer and Self Evaluation Rubric

Global Collaboration

We will share our state brochures with

They will share with us their state brochures.

Technology Instructor, Librarian, Computer Lab

On-site people, facilities:

Resources that are available

Direct students to the Alabama Virtual Library to begin their research.

Help students employ Google or other search engines. Always monitor

all searches for information. Show children how to save the URL of the

sources they use. Instruct their citing of sources.

http://www.avl.lib.al.us/

Margaret Welch Fall

ED 307 Lesson Plan

Discover Alabama

Let’s Take A Road

Information for Peers

Students will:

Know that Alabama has a colorful and rich cultural history with

evidence from a wide variety of cultures and ethnicities as well

as a diverse landscape and geographical features. Alabama has

many points of interest that make Alabama unique and a place

that a lot of people want to visit.

At the end of the unit know that AL has 5 regions, AL‘s location,

Landforms of AL, natural resources of AL, and points of interest

in AL.

To help learn this entire curriculum the students will become

travel agents and create a travel brochure highlighting points of

interest, landforms, state's flower, flag, tree, bird, etc. that

would persuade someone to take a trip to Alabama.

In the research process the students will learn about cultural

history and events, which will be taught in another unit.

• Student-centered

• Inquiry-based learning

• Cooperative learning

Teaching Method

PBL Project and Global Collaboration

Using the PAR Model

4. Relate the relationship of the five geographic regions of Alabama to the

movement of Alabama settlers during the early nineteenth century.

· Identifying natural resources of Alabama during the early nineteenth century

· Describing human environments of Alabama as they relate to settlement

during the early nineteenth century, including housing, roads, and place

names

8. Identify geographic links of land regions, river systems, and interstate

highways between Alabama and other states. (Alabama)

Examples: Appalachian Mountains, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Interstate

Highway 65 (I-65), Natchez Trace Parkway (Alabama)

· Locating the five geographic regions of Alabama (Alabama)

· Locating state and national parks on a map or globe (Alabama)

SS2010 (3) Geographic and Historical Studies:

People, Places, and Regions

2. Locate the continents on a map or globe

· Using vocabulary associated with geographical features of Earth,

including hill, plateau, valley, peninsula, island, isthmus, ice cap, and

glacier

· Locating major mountain ranges, oceans, rivers, and lakes throughout

the world (Alabama)

Content Standards

SS2010 (4) Alabama Studies

Educational Technology Standards

Content Standards

21st Century Skills

Project Based Learning teaches students 21st century skills as well as content.

These skills include communication and presentation skills, organization and

time management skills, research and inquiry skills, self-assessment and

reflection skills, and group participation and leadership skills.

Learning and Innovation Skills

Creativity and innovation

Critical thinking and problem solving

Communication and collaboration

Visual literacy

Cross-disciplinary thinking

Basic literacy

Information, Media, and Technology Skills

Information literacy

Media literacy

Life and Career Skills

Flexibility and adaptability

Initiative and self-direction

Social and cross-cultural skills

Leadership and responsibility

21st Century Themes

Global awareness

Civic literacy

21st Century Skills Learning Objectives

4th grade class textbook, online research resources,

Rubrics, work sheets, checklists

Contact Community resources: Alabama Tourism to get

brochures, Speaker from Alabama Tourism, Huntsville

Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Talk with On-site people, facilities: Technology

Instructor, Librarian, Computer Lab.

Prior to

the lesson:

Internet access, laptops, color printers, computers for

research and publishing, Microsoft Publisher or other

software designed for desktop publishing, flash drives

for saving student work. Students may find graphics

for their brochures in Microsoft Publisher, clip art,

software such as Print Shop and the Internet, etc.

Equipment:

Materials:

Students should already be familiar with basic computer operations and Internet

search techniques. Review inserting graphics and downloading appropriate pictures.

Vision impairment

• ELL Students

• ADHD

• Reading disabilities

Provision for students at educational risk:

Tiered:

Students Who Need Modifications

Tier I: Below Grade, Tier II: Grade Level,

Tier III Above Grade Level Learners

Project Based Learning project will be done by

groups of students working together toward a

common goal.

Performance is assessed on an individual basis:

• takes into account the quality of the product produced

• the depth of content understanding demonstrated

• the contributions made to the ongoing process of project

Storyboard Stage

During this stage, as my students in each

group worked on preliminary sketches and

storyboards (graphic organizers), until they

decided on a final design; I will serve as

coach, moving from group to group to guide

the students' work.

• Do the students have a clear understanding of the task?

• Does each student have ownership of her role within the group?

• Are the students attentive and working together cooperatively?

• Are the resources that students use geared to their comprehensive level

of understanding?

• Are any groups stumbling in a way that is blocking their work due to

heightened emotions?

Asking the following COACHing questions:

Summative Assessments

(End of Project)

Assessing the development of the information-processing skills (focusing on the topic;

gathering the correct information; remembering and organizing the information for

presentation; presenting findings) & conceptual understanding.

• Oral Presentation, with rubric

• Practice Presentations

• Checklist – how complete

• Peer Evaluation

• Self-Evaluation

• Other: Teachers Observation Checklist

• Brochure, Rubric • Other Product(s) or Performance(s),

Brochure, PSA/Video

Reflection

is a key component of learning.

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ED 307 Lesson Plan

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